Autumn fires

In the other gardens
  And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfires
  See the smoke trail!

Pleasant summer over
  And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
  The grey smoke towers.

Sing a song of seasons!
  Something bright in all!
Flowers in the summer,
  Fires in the fall!

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "Autumn fires", from A Child's Garden of Verses, published 1885

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by (Robert) Houston Bright (1916-1970) , "Autumn fires", published 1967 [SATB chorus a cappella], from From "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. ?
by T. A. Dorr , "Sing a song of seasons, something bright in all", published 1925 [voice and piano], from Song and Play for Children
by Marian McLaughlin , "Autumn fires", published 1963. [SSA chorus and piano]
by Marvin Radnor , "Autumn fires", published 1923. [voice and piano]
by Aleta Rossiter , "Song of the seasons", published 1907 [voice and piano], from Song Primer
by Eleanor Smith , "Autumn fires", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from Song Pictures, no. ?

Date added to the website: 2008-11-29.

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